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Steel Design Notes

Very Original Notes for Structural Engineering newbees, Behavior of Structural Steel and concepts related to modeling of steel structures. Must see and understand document for structural engineers.

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Steel design Notes

Circular columns are recommended in the areas of heavy wind; because the wind
forces on such columns are minimized irrespective of the direction of wind.
Maximum permissible radius for the circular column is 65 x thickness of the
section wall; to account for the imperfections in the manufacture.
l/r; where l = distance between the connections, r = radius of gyration; check l/r
from sp6 (old handbook) then find its allowable fe; multiply it with CSA, which
should be greater than the load coming.
A box section is immune from torsional buckling.

Higher l/r ratio leads to the more stress bearing capacity of the steel column and
hence minimizes the steel requirement.
The designer should select largest possible radius of gyration, without increasing
the area of section and the largest radius of gyration is obtained when more
material is farthest from the centroid.
The lacing and battens of column are not load carrying members and they are
just meant to hold the load carrying members in position.

The gusset plate is used to connect the truss members due to insufficient space
available for welding members at a common position. The thickness of the
gusset plate used should be 8-12mm in roof truss and goes around 22mm in
case of bridge truss.
6-8 mm thickness can be used in case the span of

truss is 8-12 m i.e. small span means small load coming on the gusset plate.

Truss members have good inplane stiffness but very less out of plane stiffness
and hence bracing in done out of plane.
Trusses members which are normally under tension may experience reversal of
stress from tension to compression due to wind or earthquake forces like in
bridges(due to vehicle load) and roof truss (due to dead and live load
combinations)which should be considered in the design.

Note: It should be ensured that the compression members do not sag


1/1000th of their length.
It is a common practice to specify minimum angle size to 50 X 50 X 6 mm in case
of roof truss.

Concrete notes:
A short column when subjected to axial force of sufficient magnitude then it may
fail by bulging out or shear if the material is brittle. In case of the long column
the failure will occur at lower loads compared to the short column for same
dimensions and strength.
On increasing the load, when Euler load is reached, the Bending stiffness(EI or
Flexural rigidity) becomes zero, but that does mean theoretically that on
increasing the load infinitesimally, the column will deflect indefinitely although
within a specified range by Euler. But practically, deflections become a
continuous process of loads although buckling remains discontinuous still.
Short column compresses until it fails by crushing and long column
buckles by showing deflection. And this is the main difference between
the two.

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